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Attorney General Stewart, reaching his arms heavenward, shaking with emotion: "Would they have me believe that I was once a worm and writhed in the dust? . . . I want to go beyond this world!" etc...
...best sequence, about a trip to Yellowstone National Park. What could be more American than a road trip to Yellowstone? A month and a half's worth of strips detail the adventures, with each daily location noted in the lower corner, "Cedar Rapids, IA ? Hastings, Neb. ? Yuma, Col.," etc. It may be the first ever cartoon travelogue. King's interest in America's pastoral wilderness would become a recurring theme in the series, especially in the color Sunday strips. (The publisher intends to reprint them separately.) The color Sundays reveal King's extraordinary visual imagination, often incorporating entirely fanciful, dreamlike...
...airfare and hotel rooms-but only SideStep includes Orbitz.com listings in its search results. If you're picky about your plane seat assignment, Seat Guru provides detailed information (material, amount of legroom, location of video monitors and exit rows, whether there's a power port for your laptop nearby, etc.) by airline and type of aircraft. Mouse over icons on seating charts to get the lay of the land...
...every check, or on the driver's license, ready to be shown to the highway patrolman who has just seen the Target run a stop sign. The computers apparently can't deal with a complicated concept like the name Otto, but they will know almost instantaneously whether F18332, etc., has forgotten any parking tickets or whether the 22-digit bank account includes any checks that bounced...
...small practices, many experts believe, won't link up unless their patients demand it. At least that's the assumption behind a company called Medem, which introduced a website in May called iHealthRecord.com The site lets you store all your family's medical information--prescriptions, allergies, health histories, etc.--and share them with physicians, as long as the doctors are on the system. You can also download vital information onto a smart card to carry with you. The software is free; Medem charges doctors who get the benefit of the record keeping. Linked to insurers, these so-called personal- health...